AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 350

Question

A company uses a 100 GB Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server Single-AZ DB instance in the us-east-1 Region to store customer transactions. The company needs high availability and automatic recovery for the DB instance. The company must also run reports on the RDS database several times a year. The report process causes transactions to take longer than usual to post to the customers’ accounts. The company needs a solution that will improve the performance of the report process. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A, C. The correct answer is A, C. Option A: Modify the DB instance from a Single-AZ DB instance to a Multi-AZ deployment. Option C: Create a read replica of the DB instance in a different Availability Zone. Point all requests for reports to the read replica.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 350